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A Tablet PC is a mobile computer shaped like a slate.

Many tablets use multi-touch technology,  which allow the user to interact with the device using their fingers.  I have an iPhone, which I love, and one of its amazing features is that I can tap it to zoom in and pinch it to zoom out.  This is a “gesture user interface” or a “multi-touch user interface“.  

Apple’s iPad, which uses much of the same technology, is a tablet computer placed “somewhere between a laptop and a smartphone”. (The New York Times)

The Economist thinks that “the iPad and other tablets could shake up the computing scene” by for instance competing with netbooks, cheap mini-laptops.  See “Steve Jobs and the tablet of hope“.

Some people think that the Apple Tablet will take over as the leader in the eReader and digital publishing industry, competing with Amazon’s Kindle and other devices.  See Mashable’s ”Why Apple’s Tablet will eat Kindle’s lunch”.

Soon we may all be reading on our tablets, and I don’t just mean the ten commandments!  I, for one, would love to borrow my neighbour’s iPad.  But remember:  Thou shalt not covet …

See also:

Slates

Touch-walls

ETYM

A small flat piece of stone or metal.

God’s Ten Commandments given to Moses, and recorded in the Book of Exodus, were inscribed on Tablets of Stone.  

See Wikipedia: Tablets of Stone

“Now the tablets were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, engraved on the tablets.”  Net Bible